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recontextualization

recontextualization noun: the process or result of recontextualizing.

Noun

recontextualization (countable and uncountable, plural recontextualizations)

  1. The process or result of recontextualizing.
    • Mazzucchelli particularly has it in for Willy Ilium, a snooty, priapic little choreographer whose work consists of postmodern appropriation and recontextualization.2009 July 26, Douglas Wolk, “Shades of Meaning”, in New York Times

Forms of recontextualization

pluralrecontextualizations

Origin of recontextualization

From re- + contextualization.

Questions about recontextualization

What does recontextualization mean?
Recontextualization means the process or result of recontextualizing.
What part of speech is recontextualization?
Recontextualization is a noun.
What is the plural of recontextualization?
The plural of recontextualization is recontextualizations.

Words near recontextualization in the dictionary

  1. recontextualisations
  2. recontextualise
  3. recontextualised
  4. recontextualises
  5. recontextualising
  6. recontextualization
  7. recontextualizations
  8. recontextualize
  9. recontextualized
  10. recontextualizer
  11. recontextualizers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: recontextualization (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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